Deeside Fishing Tackle

I took a flight from Baltimore’s International airport for Orlando Florida. One of the great things about flying in the United States is the cheap air fares, compared with rip-off Britain’s air fares, high airport taxes and of course the very high tax on fuel. My destination was the town of Titusville on the east…

At the end of 1999 they appealed for anglers to join a shark tagging program to be known as 2000 UK Shark Tagging Programme. Now, as we enter 2001, the preliminary results of the first years tagging have become known.A staggering 1000 sharks of various species have been tagged.The 1000th tag was attached to a…

Trolling Trolling is a huge subject, far too big to be covered in depth here, but I will attempt to go through the basics and leave the reader to find the many “wrinkles” for himself. It is a method which many people tend to use if they are fishing a water for the first time….

Last weekend saw Chew Valley Lake host the “Hidden Teams” competition that Bristol Water sponsor to the fantastic amount of one thousand pounds. Lee Sennigton and Geoff Lambert just before completing their double limit. 2 – Organiser Mark Withyman works out the results. 3 – Lee Sennington and Nik Long with a brace of good…

The big angler grinned his delight, slotted his rod butt into the belly pad, reeled hard to take up any slack line and lifted the rod to set the hook. The heavy thirty pound class rod heaved over into a carbon cracking hoop reaching its power thirty fathoms deep to pry the stubborn fish from…

It enables the waste to be dumped overboard miles from shore, returning it to the food chain from whence it came. Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days. But cleaning fish on a lively boat that is heading for home at best speed can be fraught with danger if…